WesTech Commercial/Industry Blog

In a corporate-academic partnership unique to algal research, WesTech Engineering, Inc. and Utah State University’s Sustainable Waste-to-Bioproducts Engineering Center (SWBEC) are developing processes for more efﬁcient harvesting of algae from municipal wastewater and other nutrient-rich sources. Floyd Grifﬁths of WesTech Engineering, Inc. reports on joint research efforts for converting algae into high-value bioproducts.

Corporations frequently establish joint research partnerships with universities in diverse ﬁelds; however, such collaboration seldom occurs in algal research, which has almost exclusively remained within the province of universities.